HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080051130
Bassin · #4080051130
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Bayan-Öndör, Erdene
Sub-basin area
725,5km²
Upstream area
7 946,8km²
Discharge
1,61m³/s
Mean elev.
942m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin · #40803295601824 km²
- Bassin · #40803292601003 km²
- Bassin · #408032941077 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 671.1 km²92.3% of basin
- Bayan-Öndör55.8 km²7.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Great Gobi
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
726.91 km² overlap
Gobiin ikh /A/
IUCN IbStrictly Protected Area
726.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
6,5°C
Annual rain
42mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 065mm
AET
47mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
240cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)